Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-12
OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, II PAGES


ately, and" "Your idol turned to clay?"
asked the sympathzing Mrs Brown who had
already commenced to sniflle. mo he
turped TO drinking, and was drowned In a
vat at tannery," fairly brawled the angelic
old maid.
THE sad case coming from Nebraska City,
where young, intelligent man, with wife
and little boy, and friends all around him,
ha, gone wrong, commands certain
amount OF sympathy. and yet sympathy has
no right to f,urc in the case. The man
thought himself smarter than all the bold
shrewd spectators who have dropped their
last cent OH the board of trade. lie imagined
that he knew more about il than any other
one man on earth. and all that was necessary
for him to make q fortune was to get
proper swing. lie continued to "buck the
tiger" and each time he ''bucked" he found
himself loser. Forgery finished his desperate
DESIRE and the Jail will hold him until term
OF court is convened, at which time 1t will be
for jury to say to the judge that several years
in the penitentiary is what the young man
needs. The fools who regularly and persis-
tently try to get something for nothing
should remember Lephron's sad fate. There
is a moral to 1t all stronger and better than
words can picture 1t.
DowN in Indiana, near Piercevillc, the
natives have started snake story, which for
all practical purposes, takes the entire bak
cry. Many columns of alleged dispatches
regarding the monster have found their way
into the metropolitan papers of the country
and the most successful circus liar ever
treading the path of glory is Knocked cold
aud left out In the first round. The animal
is said to be almost yard in circumference,
and stretches out into space some twenty
four feet or more. 1t has eyes like q four
horse dynamo and breath like cyclone.
1t Is all right, we presume. and no doubt the
people are slncere in their stamentS, as we
have heard that they have some awful
"likker' in that state.
In the good old times, long gone hence.
when 1t was perfectly proper to wear cahco
shirt when common whitewash was plenty
good enough for the front fence, before the
sinless and simple game of euchre had pro-
gresscd to progressiveness, when "two old
cat' was all the ball game the boys played
aud expert players were not sold for q sea-
son, when Omaha was a smaller town than
now the women of that olden time wore for
their head-gear q conveniently arranged and
curiously contrived straw structure, known
in classic mythology as the shaker. But it
has gone. And where? Ask some cold, mute
fashion plate and it will tell you that the
shaker has shOoker 'er, so to speak, and the
women wears it not The most wild and
weird designs In hats and bonnets have
taken the rack made vacant by its departure,
and the husbands purse is dry. The women
- a
of paint and pOwder-and think how
they are affecting literature by tho reck-
| less and ruinous expenditure of their hubby's
| funds. No words are sweeter, no sentiment
| so inspiring, no melody as soothing as that
grand and golden song, "The Hat My Father
Wore." Maybe if the women would call o
halt in fashion-tbe curse of the rich and the
burden of the poor-there might be chance
| OF Immortality in composing, arranging, pub
fishing and singing for that matter, song
| entitled, 1.-THE Bonnet Her Mother Wore"
| AS 1t is now, the song would be laughed out
| of existence, and the girl would be voted out
| of style In last springs bonnet.
LINC DIN Is wild In her mad desire to sell
| town lots. She sends her ministers out to
| neighborng towns and uses the pulpit to
| draw to the attention of the peculiar and
| pious the rare advantages possessed by addi-
| tions In that city. On recent Sabbath in a
little town some forty miles from the Capital
city, one of the sky-pilots talked as follows,
which we commend to all good people, as ar
tistic advertising: "It one among you could
| boast that royal blood coursed through your
veins that one would feel far above all others.
l saw, several years ago, tho prince of Wales
in New York city. He was only beardless
boy then. He had not then, neither has he
since, given evidence of all extraordinary
| genius or ability. Yet tens of thousands Of
people crowded on the streets to
see him. He was member of
royal family-a son OF England's
king and queen. Now my beloved friends,
an opportunity Is offered you to become n
| member of a family whose father Is the king
of kings-the great Jehoya himself. One
whose authority and power extends. Through
out all the universe. Over the sun. the moon
and the stars. While He carries in his gir-
die the keyto the kingdom Of heaven, HIS
power extends over all the outlying lots, the
subdivisions, the divisions. the additions and
all the acre property round about. People
living in q quiet village like this will hardly
understand what outlying property means.
But 60 to Lincoln and you will find that the
land for seven miles In every direction Is
plated, laid out in lots, and-they are for
sale cheap, my brethren. The congregation
will please rise and sing, ''Sinner, say will
| Won 90 to the high lands Of Heayenp'